I think you left out hatred for the poor, contempt for anyone who isn’t a middle aged cishet white man, hypocrisy, bootlicking for billionaires, and a dash of hidden sexual predator. But yes, absolutely, lots of racism.

I realize I kinda have an internet addiction problem

We know. It’s OK. We do to.

You’re a controlling git who sees other people as NPCs to demand what you want of and you blame your victims for their victimisation.

People who live with you will be so relieved when they don’t have to any more.

If you give up control, you might gain love, but I’m not convinced you have any idea whatsoever what that really is or what it looks like.

elm is easily the loveliest programming language of any paradigm I’ve ever come across. Imagine if you enjoyed maintaining an old codebase, or that five years later adding a new feature wouldn’t take you half a day to get your had round the insane tangled spaghetti of your project, because the spaghetti and the meatballs and the sauce were always kept separate until cooked and served on the dish by the compiler. You find the spaghetti straight and in bundles because that’s how you like them laid out and no one tried to get you to soften them in the warm sauce and thread them through the raw meatballs. Imagine if the compiler did your whole project in about three to five seconds, and was genuinely helpful when something is going to bite you later.

Get your monad burritos here: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/

I’ve been through phases when I could explain it, and in far simpler terms, less jargony, than endofunctors

A monad is when you can do shit and return stuff. There are two things you can do in absolutely every doShitAndReturnStuff:

1. andThen, also known as ; in less flexible languages and >>= in more esoteric languages.
2. And return also known as
   function ret(const a)
{ ret = a
} in other languages.

There are two rules:

1. (a then b) then c = a then (b then c), which sounds obvious, but I skipped a couple of values being passed (I’m using the kleisli category), and it can actually go wrong, which means that if you don’t have a monad but behave like you do, all sorts of subtle and very hard indeed to debug errors can sneak in. See “software complexity problem” for details.
2. ret then somethingrother = somethingorother = somethingorother then ret, which would seem obvious to you if you spotted that ret does nothing, but for fun, it turns out that in a language with a sufficiently advanced/flexible/accurate type system (eg Hindley-Milner stuff), of you manage 2 you get 1 for free, which is totally awesome.

“But what’s the point?” I hear all the Python devs say “We already got rid of the curly brackets. What more do you want?” (Which starts a flame war with the C syntax folk while the elm programmers shake their head and wonder why anyone is manually formatting their code whether it’s with curly braces or not in 2026).

Well, the point, my dear internet Lunatics that have persisted with this fairly unhelpful and daft re-expression of monads, the point is: what if you could redefine ; locally to totally rewire your programming language and everyone was used to that and understood what you were doing from context? Yesterday it was making database requests, but today it’s answering queries on a server. Or authenticating users from the other side of the globe. Maybe now it’s a recursive descent parser or a non-deterministic, expanding list of possible future moves in a game.

It’s totally awesome and powerful and you just don’t know that you’re missing it because you have no idea unless you already know, but that’s not really helping anyone that doesn’t already understand monads, sorry. Not that this was a plausible attempt at that. It’s more just a bit of humour if you already came across monads. Famously a monad is like a burrito more than anything else.

But unfortunately there are also monad transformer stacks. And… …operator soup for lenses and prisms. And trust me, you don’t want to go there, you really, really don’t. Just don’t go there, I’m telling you, don’t. DID YOU LIKE BEING SANE? I WARNED YOU, REMEMBER.

Thank you

I don’t understand what the triple r, circle l and lazy q mean.

Because trump wants the news cycle to move on from the heavily redacted Epstein files in which he nevertheless appears a great deal. He’s quite happy to bomb innocent villagers to this end.

Unmask.

What? People are still looking for a reason for this happening other than to distract the media from how much trump is in the Epstein files despite being redacted from it in such vast quantities?

I’m not Chinese, but in Mandarin, he and she are both pronounced “ta” (first tone, flat intonation), even though they’re written differently.

This is just to make headlines to distract from the massive amount of redaction in the Epstein files.

Well done China. Thank you for the influence this will have on car makers and regulators worldwide.

You rock.

C H E R,
Y E S.

How did you know to unblock them if you couldn’t read their answers?

You spend all day believing things without evidence otherwise you would not be able to go about your daily life. The demand for evidence comes after disbelief or sketpicism and not before it.

Porsche making its cars deliberately slower and less convenient. Stupid stupid stupid.

They managed to find enough people who didn’t already realise that trump is a lying, cheating pile of shit whip doesn’t have an honest bone in his body for his trial.

Content not viewable in your region.

Could you provide an alternate link? Or maybe use the image button to upload it to your instance so it’s out of the control of some corporation?

(Imgur deleted a bunch of content for the crime of not having a paid subscription, and they geoblock my country because the data protection commission threatened them with a fine for selling children’s browsing history and they’d rather take it out on users than simply filter the accounts they auto-tagged as children out of the data they were selling. We left reddit for a reason. Imgur is no less moneygrabbing.)